NATO Awards Largest Cyber-Security Contract To Date

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 10, 2012 @05:29PM from the well-sir-it's-certainly-big dept.

Sara Chan writes "NATO has awarded its largest cyber-security contract to date, in a move that is expected to prompt member states to augment their own cyber-security capabilities. The contract, for €58 million ($76 million), is to design and implement NATO's Computer Incident Response Capability. NCIRC will enable NATO to monitor computer networks from its headquarters in Brussels and detect and respond to cyber threats and vulnerabilities at about 50 NATO sites in 28 countries. The project is intended to meet the requirements of a declaration by NATO Head of States at the Lisbon Summit, in November 2010, which called for the achievement of NCIRC Full Operational Capability by end of 2012."

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Why NATO? by Spy+Handler · 2012-03-10 21:03 · Score: 1, Redundant

I'm sure the bureaucrats in Brussels like their $1.5 billion headquarters... but really, does NATO still need to exist? Warsaw Pact is dead. Soviet Union is dead. Whatever NATO is doing, they can hand it off to the UN.
Talk about a bureaucracy existing for bureaucracy's sake.
I suppose 50 years from now we'll all still be stripping down and bending over at TSA checkpoints.